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Sgt. William Henry – 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

| January 30, 2011

Daniel Henry, whose father and uncles took part in the war for independence, was born in Reading in the last quarter of the18th century.  When Pottsville was laid out, he as a carpenter, moved there, and on 9 January 1825, his son, William Henry was born. William Henry‘s mother died when he was eleven years […]